A senior British pilot claims he may have solved the mystery of what happened to Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Boeing 777 captain Simon Hardy also believes he knows where the doomed aircraft came to rest, following a six month examination of flight data. Using a unique mathematical technique, Hardy pinpoints the location of the aircraft to 100 nautical miles away from where the Australian Transport Safety Board (ATSB) is currently carrying out it search, the Sunday Times reports. Hardy also told the newspaper he believes pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah performed a final “emotional” fly-past of Penang island, before landing the plane on water, where it sank intact.

Despite the lethal potential of Hulk and the couple's many other dogs, three-year-old Jordan has grown up with them within arm's reach. Mrs Grennan, 24, who is herself dwarfed by 17-month-old Hulk, said the American pit bull terrier breed is misunderstood. Mr Grennan, a former boxer, formed the company 10 years ago with just two dogs after suffering a hand injury that ended his career. These include more than more than a dozen highly trained pit bulls and a single chihuahua.

Cheryl Fernandez-Versini has done what most girls wouldn’t dare to do and has chopped off all of her locks – and we love it. The 31-year-old singer has pretty much been in hiding since the X Factor final, gallivanting around with hubby Jean-Bernard Versini on holiday and keeping a low profile. Posting a picture of the back of her hair to give her fans the full view, she tweeted: ‘I ❤️ the 70’s #newdo colour is @lorealparisuk Casting Creme Gloss Berry Red 565.

WHEN controversial car dealer Richard Burbage end up in a row with his wife in a fast food restaurant he didn't appreciate it when another customer tried to intervene to calm things down. Instead the angry 41-year-old tried to attack the man - only to discover his intended victim was a martial arts expert. As a result Burbage, currently at the centre of a major police and trading standards investigation following complaints about second hand cars, ended up being arrested and appearing in court charged with assault. The drama happened after Burbage and his wife Lorraine had been to a football match on a Sunday afternoon.

It was the spot in which she spent her final night as a member of the Middleton clan so when the Goring Hotel asked the Duchess of Cambridge to join them for its 105th birthday celebrations, it was clearly an invitation she couldn't refuse. The Duchess, who is seven months pregnant, was pictured leaving the five-star London property at lunchtime following the birthday reception which was also held to mark the lobby's recent facelift.

The United States said on Tuesday it would respond through diplomatic channels to Venezuela's demand for a cut in U.S. Embassy staff in Caracas, but added that Caracas had drastically underestimated its own diplomatic presence in the United States. Venezuela on Monday ordered the U.S. Embassy in Caracas to come up with a plan within 15 days to reduce staff to 17 from 100 amid the worst diplomatic flare-up between the two ideological foes since socialist President Nicolas Maduro was elected in 2013. Maduro said there were 17 staffers at his country's embassy in Washington, a figure disputed by the United States during a brief meeting on Monday between Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez and U.S. Charge d'Affaires Lee McClenny. During the meeting, "we noted that the numbers the Venezuelan government has offered regarding its mission in the United States dramatically understate the number of Venezuelan diplomats in the United States," State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said.

It's something that perpetually intrigues because the longer I live in America, the more different I think our two nations are and the more I feel Brits misunderstand the US, and vice versa. Interestingly, the hardest things to reconcile seem to be America's role in the world, what it should and should not be, and America's relationship with guns. One American businessman suggested he felt he was repeatedly tripped up by the continuing resentment of the invasion of Iraq which still sours British perceptions of America. What's less clear to Brits is what they want from America today.

A million women were raped by Allied soldiers in Germany in the immediate aftermath of World War II, a new books claims. ‘When The Soldiers Came,’ by historian Miriam Gebhardt, is hailed as the definitive account of the treatment meted out to the defeated women of Nazi Germany which they remained silent about for decades out of shame and humiliaton. 'At the very least 860,000 women and girls - and also men and young boys - were raped by the occupying Allied soldiers and their helpers. A new book claims Allied troops raped German women during the Second World War by manipulating them with gifts of chocolate and cigarettes.

The spectacular house in Sydney’s exclusive Point Piper was sold last October by Julia Ross, an Australian entrepreneur who made her fortunes in recruitment and has moved to London. The deal set a record in Australia for a non-waterfront home. But the property was reportedly purchased illegally by Mr Xu via a network of companies based in Australia, Hong Kong and the British Virgin Islands. The forced sale follows growing concerns about Australia’s surging property market and the impact of foreign buyers, particularly from China.

One woman - who used the name 'Ayesha' to protect her identity - said that she was contacted by extremists when she was 16 or 17. Ayesha, who is now in her early twenties, said that she was sent messages "bordering on harassment" by radicals, telling her she was "extremely attractive".

While people such as John Lennon and William Shakespeare remain well known Brits, other once-famous names - including a number of eminent Cambridge alumni - are in danger of being forgotten. Some 29 per cent of Brits did not know that Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, with 15 per cent thinking he created the character of famous spy James Bond.

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